A CEO and former Google exec shares the one thing she looks for in every person she hires

The CEO of video commerce and lifestyle site Joyus, and a founder
of theBoardlist.com,
a website that aims to put more women on corporate boards,
recently told Adam Bryant of The New York Times that when
hiring, she looks for "really smart" candidates, "but I love
really smart people who are focused on the good of the
company before themselves."

She continued: "That gets my respect like nothing else. It's a
unique combination to find somebody who is so capable and smart,
but has some level of humility about their place in the entire
ecosystem. I've dealt with a lot of people who are really smart,
but it's all about them. And that's a very frustrating place for
me."

Cassidy, who previously worked at major companies including
Merrill Lynch, Amazon, and Google, says she also always asks
people she's interviewing for a job: "What drains your energy,
and what gives you energy?"

"That tells me a lot about what people like to do and what
they're good at," Cassidy concluded.